Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-07-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular correspondent
NJ NGnENHrnN Ini.. -. IL

President and Mrs. Cleveland, have re.
turned from their pleasant tour of northern
New York, looking and feeling all the better
for the delightful outing and cordial rcccp-
tion throughout the trip, but more especially
at the boyhood home of the President, where
his old friends and neighbors eagerly
thronged about him, glad 10 honor the man,
who had risen like a meteor, from the hum
blest to the proudest and greatest position
on earth, and who greeted each and all with
a good word and n kindly smile of recogni-
ton.
At the White House. it is not yet known
what other summer plans the President has
arranged-only the Atlanta visit in October
having been positively decided upon
but, | do not think he can refuse assent to
the opportunities of 81. Louis, Louisville,
and otherwestern cities.
Some alarm was felt ut the White House
the other day At the discovery that the laths
and rafterS, i'll the southern portico We're
decayed, and il was thought that the man
sion was in danger of "A collapse, but IN ex-
animation has dispclled all fear, as only
slight repairs will be necessary To stay the
detacing hand of time.
| learn that the Administration regards
with the livelieSt satisfaction the dclbera-
tions and nomiDtions of the Ohio Democrats
and, that the President feels that his course
The receipts Of the Post Office Department
for the third quarter of the last fiscal year
were Sl3,0l2'4S expenditures, SIG, 2I2, J0S:
deficiency, $500, 021 but the latter will
perhaps get reduced TO about $l0, 600. by the
receipts from international money orders A
comparative statement of the business of
this Department for the first three quarters
of the years 1SS5-S6-S7, show that the re-
ceipts have been constantly and largely
st,,.r .a1 hot 1,.,s
ponding decrease in the deficiency-so that
il is very probable the Post Office Depart
ment will he on a self-sustaining basis in n
year or two.
The count of the cash and securities i'm the
Treasury which began two months ago-in-
cidental TO a change of Treasurers-has been
completed and found correct To n cent, with
the exception of a deficiency of =, 40, though
a formal report will not be made It'll next
week.
In reply to n great number of inquiries,
the Commissioner of pensions replies, that
under the Mexican Pension Act pensions
can be paid from the date of the passage of
Jan. 10Th, 1887, only when pensioners were
sixty-two years old previous to that date;
in the exceptions to this rule, the payment
will begin on the day when the pensioner is
62 years of age, unless in cases of depend
ence and disability.
The Secretary of the Interior has won adj
ditional claim to the admiration of the fair
sex by the important ruling that married
women have the right to enter and buy
timber and stone lands under the laws gov
erning the sale of such lands i'm several of
the States and Territories.
There was no surprise in the Interior De
partment when the resignation of the chief
clerk of Patent Office who is one of the so
cllled 'indispensible" Republicans, holding
oft;ao nuJnr n Darnaprafip Administration
wasannounced, thoughthe Washngtonnews-
papers either suppressed or were profoundly
ignorant of the real reason, which was the
Chief Clerk 's relation to the Bacon defalca.
ton il being the formers duty, under the
law of the United States, TO examine the ac-
counts of the financial clerk every month,
and certify whether or not they are correct
And the Chief Clerk regularly certiiedto the
correctness of the financial clerks accounts
for four years-thc latter being defauter
all of that time And no sooner is the chief
clerk shown the door than he assays the
difficult task of embarrassing" his cor
rupt associate in Office If in nothing more.
There is no doubt but what the various
Departments are literally honeycombed
with Republican rascals and thieves who
should be sent on with Forger Harvey, who
will serve his country twelve years. in
humble capacity ut Alb any. In one of the
Departments, certain prominent hold-over
Republican has been so urgent in insisting
on the destruction of some of the official
papers that he has been placed under sur
veillance as suspect, because such great
solicitude must be of much significance 9TH
er to this individual or to his associates.
Must men are content with holding one
office. but / know of several whose ambition
cannot be bound in such narrow limits, and
as my intelligent friend, the reader has di-
vined, the gentlemen are almost invariably
Republicans, as good Democrat is gener-
ally satisfied with one office. / was led to
these reflections by con templating the easy
grace with which the Hon. Carroll ID.
Wright holds the Federal office of Com
missioner of Labor, to which he was ap
pointed in 1885, by Arthur, and the State
office of Commissioner Of Labor in Massa-
chusetts.